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Perfect hair cannon! Fundraiser recharge! Giant flag pin! It's election day in the United States, and by the end of the night -- hopefully -- we will know if the incumbent, Barack Obama, has won a second term, or if his challenger, Mitt Romney will b...

Just two weeks after its launch, Microsoft's Surface RT tablet is already set to play a small part in determining whether Barack Obama or Mitt Romney wins the U.S. presidential election. GeekWire reports that Washington-based Democracy Live, a provid...

The above video, allegedly showing e-voting machine fraud in Pennsylvania, caught the attention of the social web Tuesday morning. It's already received nearly 3,000 comments on YouTube and more than 4,500 upvotes on Reddit, hours after going online....

In the presidential election of 1840, candidates didn't have television, radio or social media to spread the word. Instead, they had to hit the streets with eye-catching campaign posters in order to convince voters to cast their ballots. Not only did...

Want a live look at voting patterns across the United States this Election Day? Facebook and Foursquare both have real-time maps of polling place check-ins across the country, broken down by state. Facebook's map runs on autopilot: Load it up, sit an...

If you're thinking about adding a photo of your ballot to <a href="http://mashable.com/follow/topics/instagram/">Instagram</a>, (or <a href="http://mashable.com/tag/twitter/">Twitter</a> or <a href="http://mashable.com/category/facebook/">Facebook</a>), you might want to think again. Some states expressly forbid recording of any kind inside polling places.

Election Day is finally here, and results will start pouring in later Tuesday afternoon and evening. How can you watch the latest election results online? Above, Mashable has collected some of the most original options we've found. What other options...

Many political campaigns in this current election have a nifty "donate now!" button on their websites. While they're convenient for the candidates, it's not clear if these buttons are secure for the donors. Websites and retailers who collect credit-c...

The election is finally here -- after tomorrow, the candidates' online ads that have chased you around the Internet will disappear. In review of the months spent campaigning and advertising, an infographic from ReTargeter shows exactly how much each ...

America is down to the final hours before hitting the polls to decide the winner of the 2012 presidential election. By now, you likely know who you're voting for, but this little guy is hoping to sway the electoral college vote with cuteness. "Little...

After a campaign of unprecedented expense and duration, the third presidential contest in the past four to divide America almost exactly in half is now almost in the hands of the voters. With polls showing President Obama holding a small lead over Mi...

All you need is a smartphone and an eye for injustice to help protect democracy. Video the Vote is collaborating with Ustream in a nationwide project aiming to get video documentation of any examples of voter suppression and disenfranchisement on Ele...

The National Mall in Washington, D.C. has seen its fair share of marches and demonstrations over the years. But marches led by puppets? Now that's a little out of the ordinary. A protest group called the Million Puppet March walked from Washington's ...

Tuesday, Nov. 6, is Election Day in the United States, which means the end of the 2012 election season is nearly upon us. The races, both national and local, have been incredibly heated. Whether it was a gaffe, a zinger or a fact-checked statement, s...

In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, many New York and New Jersey residents are unsure about where to cast their ballot on Election Day. The web's got plenty of resources to help, but what if you're among the thousands without power? If you've got a charg...

Barack Obama and Democratic campaigns announced on Monday it will be using a mobile app for poll watchers and Get Out the Vote across the country. The news comes just days after details of a similar Romney campaign app were made known. Called Mobile ...

A decade and a half into the web revolution, we do much of our banking and shopping online. So why can't we vote over the Internet? The answer is that voting presents specific kinds of very hard problems. Even though some countries do it and there ha...

vit.load(); Hurricane Sandy may wreak havoc on Election Day in some of the hardest-hit states, including New Jersey and New York. Election officials in the northeast are scrambling to ensure that voters will have a place to cast their ballot on Tuesd...

NBC News's digital team has been hard at work forging a fresh identity following the mid-summer dissolution of MSNBC.com. After months of experimentation with new social platforms, back-end technologies and homemade hacks, it's viewing election night...

If you're a voter, it's no secret that President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney are likely tracking your every online move. Cookies and trackers follow you around the web and report your activity back to campaign headquarters to improve targeting....

President Barack Obama may be the commander in GIF when it comes to his presence on Tumblr, but his competitor Mitt Romney is no slouch on the microblogging network. In October Romney was the topic of 94.5 million posts and 3 million reblogs while Ob...

For the past month, America has tuned into the debates on television and followed the candidates online. But did you know your pets have been watching too? These animals know who they're voting for when they go to the pet polls on Nov. 6. (Don't mock...

If your Facebook or Twitter feed has been full of hateful, negative comments about Barack Obama, Mitt Romney or politics in general this election season, you're far from alone. A Pew Research Center study released Friday found that the conversation o...

Are you still unsure whom to vote for in the presidential election? Take a look at your Twitter stream, says SwiftKey, maker of a predictive typing app for Android phones. Or more specifically, allow it to take a look at your Twitter stream. The comp...

Social data nerds, rejoice: Twitter released on Thursday an interactive map showing Barack Obama and Mitt Romney's most engaging tweets by state. By default, the map shows a list of both candidates' most interactive tweets. When you click each tweet,...

About 20,000 Mitt Romney campaign volunteers will be monitoring voter turnout on Election Day using a smartphone or tablet app, according to a new report. The app serves two functions: Volunteers can first use it to check-in Republican voters as they...

The 2012 election season seems like it's been going on forever, and four-year-old Abigael Evans is very tired of it. According to Denver's KUSA, the child's mother, Elizabeth Evans, said she and her daughter were listening to NPR on a trip to the gro...

Have you been receiving anti-Obama text messages from a random address? You're not alone -- hundreds of people have said they've seen them on their phones. Speaking anecdotally, most of the people this writer has noticed reporting the anti-Obama text...

Instagram has long been a favorite app of the filter-using, brunch-photographing, snap-happy mobile crowd. From its humble beginnings as a quick-and-easy way to share retro-style photographs with friends, it's now evolved into what some consider an a...

Next Tuesday's presidential election will likely be extremely close, magnifying the potential impact of vote-counting errors. So it could be problematic that several states rely on computerized voting machines that don't print out a paper record that...

Still not sure who to vote for? Or maybe you're dead-set on a candidate, and simply waiting for Election Day next week. Regardless of who you're voting for on Nov. 6, both of these presidential candidates could use some change -- of outfits, that is....

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